Sentences with phrase «social vulnerability contexts»

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Her work includes examinations of how black identity is differentially constructed across multiple contexts and informs achievement outcomes, how black people's perceptions of opportunity vary within space and influence academic orientation, and how black educational resilience and vulnerability is structured by social, institutional, and historical forces.

Attainment of the Millennium Development Goals, particularly the first goal of eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, in the face of climate change will therefore require science that specifically considers food insecurity as an integral element of human vulnerability within the context of complex social, economic, political and biophysical systems, and that is able to offer usable findings for decision - makers at all scales.

Although immigrant women are a heterogeneous group, factors related to their premigration and postmigration contexts, such as economic insecurity, family separation, social isolation, language barriers, availability of social supports, discrimination and gendered - migration policies8 — 15 may increase their vulnerability to abuse.

During adolescence, normative changes in the social context along with maturational changes in neural and endocrine systems that influence processing of motivational and socio - affective information could contribute to increased sensitivity to social evaluation, creating a potential window of vulnerability for depression during adolescence.